SDG #8: Decent work and economic growth

World Economic Situation and Prospects: November 2022 Briefing, No. 166
As the world falls further behind from its goal of ending hunger (SDG 2), countries must act to protect open and stable global food trading systems and urgently provide targeted humanitarian action to save lives and livelihoods.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Promise of a Transformative Agenda
This article connects the work that underpinned the Agenda?s emergence with the continuing challenges of its implementation as a process of norm making and norm evolution
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 139: Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience for Climate Action through Risk-informed Governance
Ensuring risk-informed governance for climate action requires citizen-centric approach through the whole-of-society and whole-of-government approaches including the leverage of government innovation and frontier technologies for DRR and resilience.
World Economic Situation and Prospects: October 2022 Briefing, No. 165
A stronger U.S. dollar will likely exacerbate inflationary pressures, worsen fiscal and external balances and hinder recovery in developing countries, undermining their prospects for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
2022 Reports of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly
Towards a New International Economic Order (A/77/214)
World Economic Situation and Prospects: September 2022 Briefing, No. 164
Amid health, climate, food security and geopolitical crises, strengthened and effective multilateral cooperation will remain critical to stimulate growth, support the most vulnerable and put the world economy on track towards sustainable development.
World Economic Situation and Prospects: August 2022 Briefing, No. 163
Introducing CBDCs for widespread use may have positive effects for the economy but also present new challenges, as its impact on financial intermediation and fiscal and monetary policy operations are not yet fully understood.
What are the Voluntary National Reviews (still) not telling us?
While there are important improvements and positive developments in the VNRs over time, there remains a significant gap between the ambitions of the 2030 agenda and the policies, strategies and actions reported in the VNRs. The deep transformative change that is envisioned in the agenda and required to meet the SDGs is not evident in the VNRs.
UN DESA Policy Brief No. 138: Improving the criteria to access aid for countries that need it the most
The COVID-19 crisis has brought to the fore the need to better account for the multidimensional vulnerabilities of countries in the allocation of aid.